Many thanks and well done to everyone who submitted their novel openings for this year’s First Chapter competition. We received 139 entries and have read lots of great submissions. Congratulations to the writers of these novels listed below – we wanted to read on! Please don’t reveal which novel is yours as reading is anonymous all the way through.
Longlisted Novels
- A Family of Cards
- An Unexpected Donation
- Angeline and the Fighters
- Best-Laid Plans
- Between Dreams At Dawn
- Bitter Seed
- Bleached Muslin
- Bluebell
- Curtain Call
- Deception
- Escape Artists
- First Love Can Be Murder
- Game On
- Hello, How Can I Help You Today?
- Hopscotch
- Hiraeth: A Longing for Home
- In Search Of Peter Pan
- Jolly Old Hawk!
- Losing Contact
- Mohallah
- Monkshood Farm
- Newgate Nell
- No Second Chances?
- Porcelain and Clay
- Shudder
- Soul Cake
- The Clouds Across the Moon
- The Contrabandist
- The Grip
- The Hollow Mountain
- The Quiet Years
- The Shell on her Back
- The Unseen
- The Waiting Place
- The Warm-Up Man
- The Weight of Silence
- Tipping Point
- Woven from Whispers
We’ll have the shortlist as soon as we can. Good luck everyone!